Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.
2 Peter 1:13 - New International Version (Anglicised) I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle (tent, body), to stir you up by way of remembrance, American Standard Version (1901) And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; Common English Bible I think it’s right that I keep stirring up your memory, as long as I’m alive. Catholic Public Domain Version But I consider it just, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up with admonishments. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But I think it meet as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance. |
Like a shepherd’s tent my house has been pulled down and taken from me. Like a weaver I have rolled up my life, and he has cut me off from the loom; day and night you made an end of me.
So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God,
We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me.
I want to know Christ – yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are ill-treated as if you yourselves were suffering.
So I will always remind you of these things, even though you know them and are firmly established in the truth you now have.
because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.